MSNBC, you need to have more content like this and Mehdi. This is the kind of confrontation that's needed in today's discourse. Mehdi Doesn't let any BS slip by, sticks the facts to him, and keeps nuance and context. If not for the informative value it's a genuinely entertaining spectator blood sport watching someone get dismantled so thoroughly.
@@kittyclopsbecause Republicans and their shills are illogical and irrational by nature. They lie, they gaslight, they use "alternative facts" and they rarely argue in good faith. That's why they need to exposed by people like Mehdi Hasan and Sam Seder.
Why should Taibbi even NEED to prepare? The whole debate concerned Taibbi's story. Or is he so out of it he can;t even remember what he wrote and manage to defend it? Just dismal.
@@phasespace4700 The latter. He posted bunch of curated info provided to him by Musk - and looked no further than that. He should know how flimsy and full of holes his story is, and prepare for those questions.
What was he supposed to prepare for? How to raise his voice and interrupt almost every sentence of the other party? He writes multiple very extensive stories outlining the collusion between intelligence agencies and Big Tech and Hassan finds 2 or 3 errors in all of that. You are cheerleading for a shill who is giving cover for an authoritarian mass censorship campaign. That makes you among the lowest forms of life.
This is why they never leave their echo chamber, they look so bad when they do. Mainstream media like MSNBC and CNN need to make it a habit of talking to these clowns.
If you listened to what what was said rather than siding with whoever appeared more alpha then it would be clear that Medhi didn't quiz Taibbi, he railroaded him with sophistry.
There wasn't a single "gotcha" moment. Hasan simply laid out Taibbi's reporting and Matt sank himself. He doesn't get that he's done a sloppy job of carrying water for Musk. If he genuinely believes this is a story of the Deep State, or something, censoring stories, his selectivity is still problematic.
Tell me about it.. but our country is woefully uneducated and isn't taught to think. Add to that the uneducated folk are fed insidious doses of christian supremacy which creates the perfect recipe for fascism. Even here in the US
@HKim0072 The Twitter files were released to 3 different Journalists so stop being a disingenuous bundle of sticks, just google Daphne Caruana Galizia and tell me how that worked out for her reporting on the Panama papers.
That may be, but regardless, Medhi held Taibbi accountable and made him look quite foolish. It was a shockingly embarrassing interview on Taibbi's part, I'm not sure why he agreed to do the show. I enjoyed every second.
I love that this interview happened on Apr 6th, the same day that Taibbi learned that Elon shadowbanned him. 4 days later, Elon told Taibbi “your dead to me” 😂
@@monotech20.14Funny how you think it’s Taibbi’s job to report a equal number of times on whatever side of the aisle it lands on. Or question him why he hasn’t reported on a certain story. Don’t act as if MSNBC, CNN, FOX, RTV or any of them are ever equal in their coverage? ✌🏽
@@monotech20.14 So it’s your contention that the mainstream news media is fair, balanced and equal in its reporting of the facts? Interesting let me ponder on that for awhile. 🤔 A DUD? So I guess I’m supposed to take your word on that seeing as how you’ve seen them and I haven’t? So much for people reaching their own conclusions eh? ✌🏽🤔🤨
Mehdi just ended this dude lol. What makes this even better is that just after the interview, Musk "betrayed" Taibbi via his bizarre Twitter policies. Taibbi left Twitter after Elon went after Substack (how Taibbi makes money) and unfollowed him. And Bari Weiss got unfollowed by Musk, too after just a small criticism of Musk. They're all pathetic, unprincipled and will turn on each other so fast.
MEHDI IS WRONG! CIS was the gov contractor working for CISA/DHS to help facilitate social media takedown requests - CIS is the DHS agency that partnered with EIP. Mehdi focuses on a minor error while obscuring the big picture to defend the Department of Homeland Security’s overreach so mehdi hasan and his staff actually only found ONE ERROR in taibbi’s reporting: he got a date wrong 🙄
......what? Taibbi said management is great at Twitter and left because of the marketing feud with substack notes and Twitter. Taibbi even said "it wad absolutely worth it and I'll always be grateful to those who gave me the chance to work on that story..." What sucks is we probably won't see anymore Twitter files. But that's okay, we got enough to expose the collusion. I need to see TH-cam and Facebook next.
I didn't think it could get any better, and then Hasan gives Taibbi an opportunity to say something critical about Musk-even providing legitimate examples that the old Taibbi would have jumped on-and Taibbi short-circuits in real time. He was visibly shaken by that.
That kind of WAS the knockout blow to the last of Taibbi's credibility. A more shocking betrayal of what he claimed were his own values as a journalist could not have been asked for.
MEHDI IS WRONG! CIS was the gov contractor working for CISA/DHS to help facilitate social media takedown requests - CIS is the DHS agency that partnered with EIP. Mehdi focuses on a minor error while obscuring the big picture to defend the Department of Homeland Security’s overreach so mehdi hasan and his staff actually only found ONE ERROR in taibbi’s reporting: he got a date wrong 🙄
Just to be clear. You don't think the story is that the US government has been working with Twitter to censoring US citizens in violation of the constitution?
If Taibbi had known his arrangement with Elon wouldn't survive the week, he might have mustered up the courage to say something mildly critical of him.
@@stevena.7022 What Mehdi is trying to show is that Matt Taibbi is full of crap and there wasn't government collusion to censor political speech. Just a company concerned about the ramifications of allowing people to post inaccurate information about a private American citizen named Hunter Biden.
@@waheguru1313 you are 100% correct. Though she is always flying by the seat of her pants as far as prep and research go so unless someone warned her about him she might accept it and then walk out when she realizes he demands real answers not sound bytes and bombast.
The fact that you think that Taibbi is on the same level and has the same ideology as MTG shows you are astonishingly ignorant or just a straight-up disingenuous liar. Probably both, tbh.
@@gary7vn yeah now that he’s off twitter and his daddy unfollowed him I’m sure he’ll enjoy the obscurity of his substack while waiting for the next grift
So pointing out 2 irrelevant errors in hundreds of pages of reporting is owning? Unlike MSNBC which actually spread fake news on COVID origin, RussiaGate, vaccines, Hunter Biden ... The list goes on
He is used to the usual standard of soft USA style wishy-washy investigative interviewers who never ask the hard questions or follow up on deflective answers. Mehdi operates in the British style. It must have come as a rude shock.
@@MyName-cw4yr Hah! Mehdi forced Taibbi to admit to at least 3 factual errors he'd made in his public comments (via Twitter). That casts doubt on the accuracy of anything he's ever written.
@@MyName-cw4yr Apparently you're not a native English speaker, so allow me to simplify: Matt said on TV that Matt himself was wrong about at least 3 things. So Matt has probably made mistakes before. 分かりますか？
@@spunkinater It's like an alternate reality in this place. You are literally the only other person I've seen wondering about the illegal censorship going on. I wonder if all these people are bots.
Absolutely destroyed Taibbi here. Taibbi was given selective information from a billionaire (arguably richest man in human history), omitting tons of data. And he thought he was "doing journalism" by promoting that. He not only omitted tons of information, as Mehdi exposes him here, he was incorrect in TONS of the data here, on the flagging tweets part, he was off by 21 MILLION. Absolutely crazy how much promo he's gotten over this.
Straight from the source is not omitting anything. You obviously haven’t heard any trial’s about the previous ceo covering up information to promote a leftist agenda.
💯Agreed. Small note, call it a bit of small adjustments (of the scale). Mansa Musa was the richest person who ever live. At $435 Billion in Gold (not digital) wealth, the 14th-century African emperor tops Musk wealth by a significant amount. Always happy to teach!
Matt Taibbi was completely and utterly embarrassed and humiliated. I've read so many books of his and he is clearly a great writer. Why he has become such a rubbish human being, lately?
MEHDI IS WRONG! CIS was the gov contractor working for CISA/DHS to help facilitate social media takedown requests - CIS is the DHS agency that partnered with EIP. Mehdi focuses on a minor error while obscuring the big picture to defend the Department of Homeland Security’s overreach so mehdi hasan and his staff actually only found ONE ERROR in taibbi’s reporting: he got a date wrong 🙄
You're pushing the narrative MSNBC wants you to push and so you're basically a stenographer. You mental cases are so indoctrinated that you can't even realize the significance of the story... that the US government is now actively regulating and controlling what "We The People" can see, hear and learn from...and instead of commenting on the importance of this discovery...you're just whining about your favorite villain Elon. We are all doomed.
@@James333-n2q No, he's become a grifter. He was fired from Rolling Stone and fading into obscurity. Musk gave him a grift that made him relevant and rich.
@@gerald5175 He's a journalist. He gave up working for Rolling Stone after it became another tool of the oligarchs. Defending Rolling Stone takes the cake. You guys are so indoctrinated that you can't even comprehend the importance of a story about the US government actively regulating and controlling freedom of speech...and so you whine about the messenger.
@@thx1168 I'd always be like that if I kept inadvertently setting myself up for embarrassment too. An embarrassment that Matt could have otherwise avoided by employing just a smidgen of intellectual humility.
@@v6math The problem is that for MT's audience, it doesn't matter if everything he says is exposed as nonsense. Republicans exist in a fact-free cosmos.
I'll give props to Matt Taibbi for actually doing this interview, unlike other right-wing grifters who only ever go on Fox and get their butts kissed. Very embarrassing though.
Contrary to Taibbi's implication, a story isn't accurate, if it omits relevant context. The breathless complaint about Twitter taking down Hunter's dic pix, without mentioning what they were, is a case in point.
They took down all reference to the story and yesterday it came out that 9 Biden family members have been directly linked to the financial dealings in the laptop. Also, the icloud leak had hard evidence that Joe sent him money to pay for his escourts (i.e. a timestamped video of Hunter arguing with her about payment and a timestamped money transfer from Joe). If that doesn't bother you there's something wrong.
Now there's a distinction without a difference. Whether your excuse is "he does it, too" or "everyone does it, too," it is the same excuse, and it is still lame.
The story he broke 10y ago was fine. Had it's cracks and stuff but all in all was well researched. This today is spoon fed bs probably by a team of fixers and their tall-tale-engineers to get him to do exactly what he's doing.
Me too..but I much prefer ALL THE FACTS...not selective parsing... medhi is an exceptional debater and I certainly wouldn't want to go up against him if I'm not being righteous in my facts lol Matt looked like a deer in headlights most of the time
the core issue is the government here, not the journalist, why would a news organization take the side of the government and people in power over an actual journalist trying to get info to the public?
come on, if nude pics of matt taibbi were posted on twitter, he really believes he'd have no avenue personally to get them removed? that sounds highly dubious (but i don't use twitter so that's just my impression).
Yeah the second Taibi claimed that he would have no recourse as an individual if hacked nudes of him were posted on Twitter I was hoping Hassan would call him on his BS. Taibi could pick up the phone and personally call the owner of Twitter and Musk would start another round of firings. This fact also undercuts Taibi's entire Twitter files argument.
There is a difference between "no avenue" and having a direct pipeline to Twitter. Biden, Trump, and governmental organizations have that pipeline, whereas Taibbi, Hasan, you and I do not. Also, the amount of "avenues" available when Dorsey was CEO of Twitter was incredibly limited. Famous TH-camrs with millions of subscribers could not get verified. Not as famous people would get verified, though, if they had the right connections with people at Twitter. If you were banned unfairly, you sent Twitter an email and prayed they would get back to you (they often never responded). There was no customer service whatsoever; you could never get a hold of an actual human.
Dude, Mehdi’s preparation enabled him to call Taibbi what he is…a fading journalist who took a journalistic mercenary stance by being contrarian if it serves his substack and other journalistic opportunities. Taibbi is a phony. He has fallen so far and has so little confidence in his own journalistic efforts such that he has to appear on major interviews by drinking alcohol for courage (do you really think those sips from a coffee cup was coffee?)
@@permasun1 You just can't admit that this administration has controlled the narrative at the expense of the truth. Sad. Our national media is totally corrupt and only reports one side of any story.
@@Ashakat42 Taibbi buried himself, when he admitted that his 'journalistic integrity' didn't extend to having the balls to stand up to the union-busting robber baron who used him.
@@Ashakat42 If he can't be bothered to do very basic fact checking on the name of an organization and when it was founded, then he doesn't really have any journalistic integrity any more. A reluctance to make corrections on those errors is even more damning, since even mainstream media will post any corrections at the top of their articles.
1:11 The very first thing Matt Taibbi says in this video is enough by itself to show how hard he's working to sensationalize his story. "Twitter files" is much bigger than the 2008 global financial crisis? Good lord. How ludicrous.
"Good lord. how ludicrous" that the state security apparatus has thoroughly embedded itself with social media companies. That is not a story at all. Corrupt bankers is def a bigger story. Clown
my favorite part was him trying a "Gotcha!" on Mehdi with the "woke" vs. "Digital" bit at the start. Mehdi totally "no-sold" it and Taibbi knew from then on he was screwed lol
fixed the title for msnbc *Mehdi debates Mehdi as Mehdi agrees with Mehdi , while Matt Taibbi comments on the 'Twitter Files' and Elon Musk between Mehdi taking deep breaths from exhaustion*
Not really. He's become another Alex Jones and enjoys the same following--utterly deluded people who will believe anything and who are basically contemptuous of facts.
Wait hold on I didn't know about that story. Wait I gotta look into that. Yeah I know that was wrong but. Okay you got a point there but. Just excuses after excuses for not doing his job, Jesus
the core issue is the government here, not the journalist, why would a news organization take the side of the government and people in power over an actual journalist trying to get info to the public?
@@justinhenry8995 The problem is that Tiabbi is basically carrying billionaire Elon Musk's water and just writing whatever Elon wants him to. Elon clearly has an agenda where he wants to bash democrats and gave Tiabbi a very one sided story. Even worse, Tiabbi missed an actual instance of the govnerment trying to use censorship on social media when Donald Trump made several requests from Twitter's moderation team. So in essence, Tiabbi also is doing the bidding of the republicans in government.
well, even if his arguments were more convincing to me at first glance, it is NOT good journalistic practice to not let the person to be interviewed finish their sentence. I've known him since his al jazeera days, where I was mostly appreciating his interviews. But Taibbi has a habit of stumbling verbally and stuttering, seeking a way back to his train of thought and everytime he does, Mehdi seizes the opportunity to utterly derail his response, preventing him from even thinking about a proper sentence to capture his thought process. This is not great journalism, it's great political rhetoric, where winning is more important than the accuracy of a description.
Mehdi is one of the worst journalists working, and I thought that before he jumped on over to the US. You should check out his book about winning arguments because in it he lays out every illegitimate tactic one can use as if this is somehow a good thing. He regularly employs strawman arguments, reframes questions, uses highly selective appeals to authority, quote mines, cuts people off mid-sentence in order to twist their point into a strawman and of course he loves the classic 'lie by omission' tactic. Mehdi even begin this interview with an attempt to poison the well. If you think he did a good job here then you have fallen for all of these tricks and more.
@@phasespace4700 Check my other comment on this video where I literally time stamp one such example. If you can't see the tricks after reading and watching that then I'm afraid there is no hope for you. Another little moment is where Mehdi states Taibbi is claiming the congress witness was lying under oath, but Taibbi never even suggested that. He goes to object and Mehdi quickly moves on without allowing a rebuttal despite ending the sentence repeating the lie. Taibbi didn't call her a liar, he didn't insinuate it, he didn't even vaguely hint at it. Taibbi only said he hadn't been given the tweets the witness was referencing and the witness testified later, thus it wasn't possible to publish something he didn't have. This in no way is calling or even hinting at her being a liar but Mehdi just invented that idea and claims Taibbi was saying it. That was blatant and dishonest. I am honestly shocked you can't watch that part and recognise the trick being used.
Yeah, it's like talking to Armed Liberal. "Oh, is that why your son died of cancer? Oh, are you gonna cry because your feefees were hurt? So that's why you're an incompetent journalist, huh? No wonder your father hated you." The lesson is that you don't debate liberal animals-- you troll them.
@My Name Sorry, Matt got destroyed with facts and errors of his own making. His credibility got pulled apart. He stood by his article in a petulant way. And had to concede every error pointed out. He was like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that doesn't exist.
@@MyName-cw4yr only TWO instances on twitter were thought to be censorship, and they were : The nude pics of hunters junk which weren’t censorship because they violated twitters terms of service and that’s why they were removed! And there was trumps attempt to have his admin demand and succeed in having tweets about him removed! Now that was ACTUAL government censorship of social media!
This is how you ignore a whole body of work and only concentrate on two trivial mistakes to destroy a reporter's reputation. Chalk this up as a win for state censorship.
@@KellyMessiah Taibbi certainly couldn't manage to come up with a _single_ damning piece of evidence to support his outlandish claims, despite being given multiple opportunities. Perhaps you'd like to give it a try?
Mehdi is not interested in the truth , he’s interested in msnbc’s narrative. If you’re interested you should watch the whole interview in front of congress.
@@MyName-cw4yr Nope. Matt uses hear say and "1+1=3" twisted logic. The Bidens asked Twitter to remove nude photos of Hunter, which they had every right to do. Don the Con tried to get Twitter to remove a mean tweet WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT. That was government trying to control social media.
Matt said he “tried his best”. That’s not journalistic integrity. If you can’t verify the story you don’t publish the story. Woodward and Bernstein always verified their stuff.
Wow, I at one time really admired taibbi. He is setting himself to be a newsmax correspondent. Where facts are not important, and gaming those poor suckers is very profitable.
No one verifies stories. The entire bounty gate story about Russian bounties in Afghanistan was pushed by a single journalist with no sources. Totally fake made up story.
it's hard to believe how Hasan's debating tricks and slimy innuendos impress some people more than an honest attempt to tell the truth. I don't for a second believe Hasan actually believes any of the crap he is paid to sell
Taibbi was eviscerated. It was embarrassing. It really is one of the most pathetic falls from grace as a journalist. Loved his work on the 2008 crash. He was a proper investigative journalist. In his defence he has always been a terrible public speaker, but there is no excuse for mealy mouthed deflection and denial and every turn from this guy. What happened to him?
You mental cases are so indoctrinated that you can't even realize the significance of the story... that the US government is now actively regulating and controlling what "We The People" can see, hear and learn from...and instead of commenting on the importance of this discovery...you're just whining about sighs. We are all doomed.
You obviously haven’t been listening to the hearings. Hasan isn’t using facts, he’s bending them and using his black belt arguing ability to turn black into white, as he used to do here in the UK, before he saw better prospects for his abilities in foreign lands.
@@thebillryan - He realised that there was more money to be made grifting to a gullible right wing audience, just like Glenn Greenwald and Russell Brand.
Because he's got spoon fed everything for his story. And he obviously swallowed it hook, line and sinker then washed it down with the provided cool aid.
And Matt was completely disingenuous about the fact that the tweets the Biden campaign asked them to review were nude pictures of Hunter - which was completely against Twitter's rules.
and matt started off as I expected. "I dont have to talk about how important the files are. They speak for themselves." In other words, I'm just going to say nonsense and then demand you prove me wrong.
The MAGAverse makes it easy for people to get attention, acceptance and money. You can say anything - in fact, the more extreme and crazy the better - and they will love you for it.
@@jmaycock liberals always believe they're right no matter what happens. That's why you should never debate them, associate with them or even talk to them. They are a waste of breath because you won't get through to them. You can literally point to the sky and say hey look it's blue and they'll say "nuh uh muh feelings"
correct. That was no debate which would've required for both people debating not doubling as the "impartial", "referee", "moderator" etc.... I agree that this was a poor performance on Matt's part, but tbh - he has a habit of stumbling verbally / stuttering and whenever he was trying to figure out a way to articulate his thought process, Mehdi seized the opportunity to utterly derail Taibbi's attempt at capturing his train of thought for a proper response. He did not give Taibbi a chance to answer his tough but - concededly - justified questions. That's not a debate with equal opportunity for all participants to state their case. It's just a meal in a lion's den.
It’s funny how people are concerned about the small bipartisan details, rather than the fact that the government is overstepping boundaries in a non-partisan manner.
Contrast this interview with Leslie Stahl interviewing mtg on 60 Minutes. What an interview that would have been with either Mehdi Hasan or Jon Stewart running the interview.
Wow - Mehdi is on another level. Just like Jon Stewart... Taibbi got dusted in this interview. He was all tough on twitter like 'invite me on your show' and then got smoked
@@angelorossini7016it obviously came as a complete surprise to Matt 😁 And your pompous description of Medhi shows an insecurity. The second use was redundant.
@@neale3871 Describing a corporate news presenter as a bloviator is pompous? I don't want to say 'okay boomer,' but you make it hard. get back to me when the five minutes of pharmaceutical ads starts so you won't miss any of your program.
Lead with insinuations, constantly speak over and interrupt during almost every response, ambush Matt throughout with with unrelated side topics, and then end with further insinuations. Oh, and totally ignore the self contained overall merits and damning substance of the twitter files themselves. Yeah, a real masterclass... in partisan hackery and aggressive buffoonery.
@@en9a9eperelandra80 Cope. Taibbi got humiliated and admitted error after error. There is no damning evidence in the pathetic so called twitter files story. It's an absolute joke.
@@Don-md6wn - you're free to believe whatever you want, but there is plenty of evidence that shows federal agencies going out of their way to politically censor social media.
@@en9a9eperelandra80 maybe if Matt came prepared, didn't lie or omit information in his 'journalism', didn't just make stuff up because it suited his narrative...Medhi wouldn't have had to completely shred him. If he wants to be a real journalist again, maybe he should do his homework and don't just accept what 'handed' to him from Elon. He made himself look like a fool. Medhi just put him on the stage.
you mean uncivilized, right? Just remember that Taibbi is a real patriot trying to keep American shiny armor by attacking the moral decay of US gov (an action that may lead the world again to trust and love the USA) and Mahdi really wants to quicken your "New Rome" failure.
@@mattdomenick6955 no. He was literally hired by a very rich and powerful person to push an agenda. THAT is why he the bad one here. He used cherry picked information that Musk had selected. They hid the examples with Trump and his administration, while only focusing on the ones from Biden's team (who wasn't in government at the time!). He deliberately misrepresented the facts, like this video clearly shows (and Taibbi admits).
Matt Taibbi shot his credibility by publishing an autobiography which bragged about his rampant sexual harassment and misconduct while he was running a gutter publication in Moscow.
@@dozzer009 I’m shocked so many people in these comments are okay with the government cuddling up so close to Twitter. Regardless of if our government broke any specifically laws, I just don’t think these two groups should be that close. Because it ends with true stories being labeled as misinformation that could influence an election 🤷🏻♂️
hahaha that is completely meaningless and doesn't affect the truth and facts at all dope! he totally destroyed MSNBC for parroting The Establishment narrative of russia russia russia hoax and denied any wrong doing by hunter biden hahaha so fantastic and you have to be a special kind of stupid to think Taibi is discredited by lying fake news MSNBC host hahaha wakey wakey!!
That hurt. It hurt because I have such respect for Matt after reading 'Griftopia'. Its tough losing respect for someone you admired, but, follow the truth.
The story is in the public interest, but it's not in the public interest to report it without contextualizing that Twitter could and did refuse 60 percent of the time requested and that many of the "censored" tweets were simply vile content that violated the terms of service. These to points alone add complexity to the situation as opposed to "government is censoring right wingers" story.
Taibbi showed it was not just right wingers. Weird, how Mehdi and Dems like to ignore that part, but corporate Dems hate progressives more than they hate Republicans, so there's that.
Matt says they also censored left organizations too. But they were organizations that also are more anti establishment than MSNBC so the Dems didn't seem to care about that in the hearings.
The point is not how much Twitter caved in. It's how hard the security state leaned in. Nor is it the point whether terms of service were in fact violated. Why is it the FBIs job to police a private company's terms of service? It's a convenient pretext
@@peteunderdown6889 Bidens team wasn’t the FBI. If tweets break the TOS then it’s in their right to handle it. The fact remains that high profile individuals and situations usually bring about more eyeballs if Twitter didn’t respond in those instances it’s get worse. People who think this isn’t normal must not work in any corporate environment or understand people to any degree.
@BahubaliSamraat most of it. Hard to ignore the 150 or more contacts with Russian agents highlighted in the report. If nothing was amiss, why all the obstruction by Trump? 10 descriptions that could not be charged on a sitting President, but Mueller said those could be brought after office.
@@ailblentynNo, it’s the money. The Right Wing eats up stories about influential “leftists” who turn right. It’s like someone who was wicked but is now redeemed because they have been baptized. Easy money if you play it right. Matt Taibbi is just being lazy, and it shows!
@@ailblentyn Not really, that's what happened to him. He's not the first nor last "leftist" to take the money. This is one is really disappointing because Matt was once one of the best journalist out there.
Yes, Jimmy, after listening to you yell lies to all of us for years, I dearly hope DOJ is finally coming for you now. Mister Hassan: I just impulse bought your book in honor of this interview. Mostly for the sickened look on taibbi's face. It reminded me of Doctor Hill's testimony before congress. Thanks for that.
@@Pfpfpfpfpf2020 Agreed. But I still don't get it. How does a person toss all of their principles and integrity just to manage to increase their following by appealing to stupid people?
It took his team two weeks to find two errors. At no point does he address if the core of the Twitter files, is true. The only thing I care about is whether or not the gov pressured and paid big tech to suppress valid information. We ate walking into a fascist environment and you clowns are cheering it on
Matt was given access to files and now he is claiming he didn't have access - meaning that he was given selective access and he just laundered the selection. I would make a distinction between a courier and a journalist. Thank you Mehdi for bringing Matt to your show. He looked and sounded like George Santos.
'meaning that he was given selective access ' Well said. That's the nub of the issue. As to him 'liking' Musk... er, you're supposed to be a journalist... WTH's that got to do with it?
Mehdi lied about CISA not being involved and intentionally mischaracterized 3000 URLs as being only 3000 tweets. In actuality, the URLs linked to millions of tweets and it even said in the document that it was only a sample of what was to be censored as per the government.
Ouch. That was painful to watch. I didn’t think it was possible to actually feel so embarrassed for Taibbi that I _started_ to actually feel a little bad for him…
I don’t think you we’re watching the same thing I was. Matt is a journalist not a political hack. Just because he doesn’t support your party on every issue doesn’t mean he’s not reporting the truth or what sliver of the truth he can find.
@@boardmeetingsofficial He couldn’t answer very basic questions about the credibility of his work. That negates your “sliver of the truth” argument, man.
Because he is collecting content here. This footage will be amply diced up and shown in an omitted context to as many brainless conspiratorial idiots he can possibly reach. This is just a way to make money and it's easier than just reporting 100% what factually happened. That doesn't work like it used to in this country. It used to be that facts were facts and that was all that was reported. However, when you do that nowadays you don't get anywhere. Facts don't sell. Conspiracy sells. He just wants to make money and grifting unintelligent idiots who panic at the utterance of the phrase "Da' Govment" does take more effort than just reporting the facts, but it yields much more results. The truth is just the truth. There is no flare to it. It's boring. Truth doesn't SELL. Conspiracy is where it's at. That's how you hook an audience. Get a good enough echo chamber going and you can say or do practically anything. It's not like your followers are going to read about any truth or facts. Just the conspiracies you feed them alone with sustain them. Then they can smugly wave off any studies or factual data presented to them because facts don't matter anymore.
Twitter complying with court orders from India is somehow a big story because India is right wing? Twitter is also complying with court orders from Brazil and Australia that are dumb socialists. Where is the outrage for the latter? LOL
🦆Twitter files publisher: 'Every conceivable wing' of federal enforcement sent censorship requests. No doubt FB and Google, TH-cam is doing the same, and also Apple.“Our assumption is that this was made possible because of hysteria about Russian penetration of our politics.” That would involve anyone in the political class actually believing the Russian Collusion conspiracy theory.
MEHDI IS WRONG! CIS was the gov contractor working for CISA/DHS to help facilitate social media takedown requests - CIS is the DHS agency that partnered with EIP. Mehdi focuses on a minor error while obscuring the big picture to defend the Department of Homeland Security’s overreach so mehdi hasan and his staff actually only found ONE ERROR in taibbi’s reporting: he got a date wrong 🙄
@@janxander6535 It looked to me like he was sarcastically commenting on Mehdi's constant interruptions and filibustering; by pretending that his mic didn't work. But you might be right.
And thankfully mehdi was able to keep taibbi on topic through those interruptions and that’s why Matt fell apart. Cause he couldn’t derail the conversation
Lmao Taibbi was so rattled in this interview. 😂 He actually even resorted to the Trump tactic of ridiculing MSNBC as fake news, as if that has anything to do with this topic.
Quite pleasant to watch him squirm as the reality of his [shifting] positions over the years are presented to him by Mehdi, one after the other. He's obviously just a grifter now.
I honestly hadn't read him in years. When I had a Rolling Stone subscription back in the day, I was a big fan. And his work on Real Time with Bill Maher was also terrific. Regardless of what he has written or said since, his writing had a ton of real world impact. Can't think of another writer who made the 2008 economic collapse so easy to understand. This interview was pretty bad though, he looked out of his depth.
@@MyName-cw4yr Here's a hint: when the host shows your own verbatim statements on screen, shows again and again that they are sheer fabrication until, reluctantly, you're forced to admit you're a sloppy journalist with no credibility, that's a clue you may be out of your depth.
Snowden released the same info a decade ago. Google search "the intercept convert agent". Main Stream Media brought us WMD in Iraq"Weapons of Mass Deceptions". Don't be fooled with a polarizing confirmation bias. Censorship and Domestic propaganda is legal and happening all the time.
What facts and figures do you mean? The part where he completely ignores the point of the Twitter files, which is to show how the government pressured social media to censor people?
MSNBC, you need to have more content like this and Mehdi. This is the kind of confrontation that's needed in today's discourse. Mehdi Doesn't let any BS slip by, sticks the facts to him, and keeps nuance and context.
If not for the informative value it's a genuinely entertaining spectator blood sport watching someone get dismantled so thoroughly.
I disagree. More Russia, more Trump, more COVID!
How about more constructive conversations not confrontation.
There is plenty of content like this all over YT and Twitch. This is a rarity for MSM.
@@kittyclopsbecause Republicans and their shills are illogical and irrational by nature. They lie, they gaslight, they use "alternative facts" and they rarely argue in good faith. That's why they need to exposed by people like Mehdi Hasan and Sam Seder.
Doesn’t let any BS slip by? LOL. Dude is the definition of an establishment shill
So, Taibbi asked for this interview and then proceeded to avoid preparing for it?
Why should Taibbi even NEED to prepare? The whole debate concerned Taibbi's story. Or is he so out of it he can;t even remember what he wrote and manage to defend it? Just dismal.
@@phasespace4700 The latter. He posted bunch of curated info provided to him by Musk - and looked no further than that. He should know how flimsy and full of holes his story is, and prepare for those questions.
You can’t prepare when your entire position is based on biased omission and straight up lies that are available to the general public
What was he supposed to prepare for? How to raise his voice and interrupt almost every sentence of the other party? He writes multiple very extensive stories outlining the collusion between intelligence agencies and Big Tech and Hassan finds 2 or 3 errors in all of that. You are cheerleading for a shill who is giving cover for an authoritarian mass censorship campaign. That makes you among the lowest forms of life.
They asked him.
The last time Taibbi agrees to be quizzed by Medhi.
This is why they never leave their echo chamber, they look so bad when they do. Mainstream media like MSNBC and CNN need to make it a habit of talking to these clowns.
He waltzed right in to a train wreck and then his head phones got tight.
Instantly regrets it
If you listened to what what was said rather than siding with whoever appeared more alpha then it would be clear that Medhi didn't quiz Taibbi, he railroaded him with sophistry.
@@sublationmedia
No, Hassan had the truth on his side and well as being skilled at presentation.
that was essentially a mauling...poor guy. cooked. burnt. deboned. clapped.
Did MSNBC get rid of Medhi over THIS?
Mehdi's style of debate is the norm here in the UK. You should have more of that in America to keep your lawmakers in check.
I wish. I really do wish we had that.
Wasn't a debate, just a gaslighting actor for MSNBC and the deep state speed talking at someone trying to do journalism.
Democrats don’t deal with factual reality tho so that wouldn’t work
There wasn't a single "gotcha" moment. Hasan simply laid out Taibbi's reporting and Matt sank himself. He doesn't get that he's done a sloppy job of carrying water for Musk. If he genuinely believes this is a story of the Deep State, or something, censoring stories, his selectivity is still problematic.
Tell me about it.. but our country is woefully uneducated and isn't taught to think. Add to that the uneducated folk are fed insidious doses of christian supremacy which creates the perfect recipe for fascism. Even here in the US
Mehdi, thank you sir. I applaud you. I too used to like him. Key words “used to.”. Excellent disassembly man. And in good taste at that. Kudos to you.
And then MSNBC canned Mehdi.... Mehdi is one of the best.
The Panama papers were released to a wide variety of media outlets. That’s how a proper process is done.
Exactly.
Sure. Tell that to Julian Assange.
@HKim0072 The Twitter files were released to 3 different Journalists so stop being a disingenuous bundle of sticks, just google Daphne Caruana Galizia and tell me how that worked out for her reporting on the Panama papers.
@@rachael_grey STFU karen.......I love how I can call someone karen now and it is the same calling her a cu nt.
That may be, but regardless, Medhi held Taibbi accountable and made him look quite foolish. It was a shockingly embarrassing interview on Taibbi's part, I'm not sure why he agreed to do the show. I enjoyed every second.
I love that this interview happened on Apr 6th, the same day that Taibbi learned that Elon shadowbanned him. 4 days later, Elon told Taibbi “your dead to me” 😂
Did he not report something he was supposed to?
Strange how Taibbi never mentions how X does censor , say in behalf of India.
@@monotech20.14Funny how you think it’s Taibbi’s job to report a equal number of times on whatever side of the aisle it lands on. Or question him why he hasn’t reported on a certain story. Don’t act as if MSNBC, CNN, FOX, RTV or any of them are ever equal in their coverage? ✌🏽
@@HrDKnockLife More equal than Taibbi. Who is a lying HACK and the Twitter files were a DUD.
@@monotech20.14 So it’s your contention that the mainstream news media is fair, balanced and equal in its reporting of the facts? Interesting let me ponder on that for awhile. 🤔
A DUD? So I guess I’m supposed to take your word on that seeing as how you’ve seen them and I haven’t? So much for people reaching their own conclusions eh? ✌🏽🤔🤨
Mehdi just ended this dude lol.
What makes this even better is that just after the interview, Musk "betrayed" Taibbi via his bizarre Twitter policies. Taibbi left Twitter after Elon went after Substack (how Taibbi makes money) and unfollowed him.
And Bari Weiss got unfollowed by Musk, too after just a small criticism of Musk. They're all pathetic, unprincipled and will turn on each other so fast.
Is Taibbi not on Twitter anymore?
He never left twitter.
MEHDI IS WRONG! CIS was the gov contractor working for CISA/DHS to help facilitate social media takedown requests - CIS is the DHS agency that partnered with EIP. Mehdi focuses on a minor error while obscuring the big picture to defend the Department of Homeland Security’s overreach
so mehdi hasan and his staff actually only found ONE ERROR in taibbi’s reporting: he got a date wrong 🙄
So you don't mind that the US government is working with private companies to censor US citizens?
......what? Taibbi said management is great at Twitter and left because of the marketing feud with substack notes and Twitter. Taibbi even said "it wad absolutely worth it and I'll always be grateful to those who gave me the chance to work on that story..."
What sucks is we probably won't see anymore Twitter files. But that's okay, we got enough to expose the collusion. I need to see TH-cam and Facebook next.
I didn't think it could get any better, and then Hasan gives Taibbi an opportunity to say something critical about Musk-even providing legitimate examples that the old Taibbi would have jumped on-and Taibbi short-circuits in real time. He was visibly shaken by that.
That kind of WAS the knockout blow to the last of Taibbi's credibility. A more shocking betrayal of what he claimed were his own values as a journalist could not have been asked for.
MEHDI IS WRONG! CIS was the gov contractor working for CISA/DHS to help facilitate social media takedown requests - CIS is the DHS agency that partnered with EIP. Mehdi focuses on a minor error while obscuring the big picture to defend the Department of Homeland Security’s overreach
so mehdi hasan and his staff actually only found ONE ERROR in taibbi’s reporting: he got a date wrong 🙄
The fact Matt asked him to invite him to the show to specifically ask him about that issue makes it even funnier.
Matt can’t take any criticism
Just to be clear. You don't think the story is that the US government has been working with Twitter to censoring US citizens in violation of the constitution?
If Taibbi had known his arrangement with Elon wouldn't survive the week, he might have mustered up the courage to say something mildly critical of him.
There is no way he thought elon musk had noble intentions in giving him that info. He’s not that naive.
Exposes corporate government collusion to censor political speech?
"Thank you Satan. Please may I have some more." Is the correct response
@@stevena.7022 What Mehdi is trying to show is that Matt Taibbi is full of crap and there wasn't government collusion to censor political speech. Just a company concerned about the ramifications of allowing people to post inaccurate information about a private American citizen named Hunter Biden.
Cash Rule Everything Around Me
i believe he knew about the issues with it but that he also knew what an amazing opportunity it was for his career and status and so he did it anyway
He is bought and paid for.
Imagine the joy if it had been Hassan conducting that 60 Minutes interview with MTG. That would have been MSM worth watching.
She would never agree to it.
@@waheguru1313 you are 100% correct. Though she is always flying by the seat of her pants as far as prep and research go so unless someone warned her about him she might accept it and then walk out when she realizes he demands real answers not sound bytes and bombast.
I remember thinking that exact same thing when I saw it. Stahl. Give me a break.
The fact that you think that Taibbi is on the same level and has the same ideology as MTG shows you are astonishingly ignorant or just a straight-up disingenuous liar. Probably both, tbh.
This is history in the making. Mehdi just killed this man’s career. And he BEGGED for it!
Matt is fine skipper.
Now Mehdi should get Gym Jordan next.
Why don’t you care about our government getting too close to tech companies?
@@Buttcakes15 Because he's a low info tribalist.
@@gary7vn yeah now that he’s off twitter and his daddy unfollowed him I’m sure he’ll enjoy the obscurity of his substack while waiting for the next grift
Christ this was a beating. My goodness. Why would he debate Mehdi. Ouch.
Taibbi was trash talking Mehdi on Twitter and threw out a challenge without ever thinking that Mehdi might take him up on it.
This "debate" was the equivalent of Hasan saying: "you're fly's open, ha,ha, ha, look at you." Facts from Hasan were not in evidence.
@@markbujdos584 Your ignorance is showing.
Is Mehdi cia? Has he had all 62 vaccines required by the CDC? lol
@@markbujdos584 facts from Hasan were not in evidence, apart from the entire interview? Why even lie so egregiously?
And Matt asked to be on with Mehdi?!?! What a mistake. Bravo my brother. You owned him.
Only worse thing Taibi could have asked to be on John Stewart show.
Actually he didn't own Matt.
So pointing out 2 irrelevant errors in hundreds of pages of reporting is owning? Unlike MSNBC which actually spread fake news on COVID origin, RussiaGate, vaccines, Hunter Biden ... The list goes on
He is used to the usual standard of soft USA style wishy-washy investigative interviewers who never ask the hard questions or follow up on deflective answers.
Mehdi operates in the British style.
It must have come as a rude shock.
Clearly never watched his show. He kept saying MSNBC, Medhi's on Peacock for a reason. So he can take no prisoners!
Mehdi starts by saying "I hope we can all be civil" then immediately proceeds to body Matt into a crater like he was Yamcha
That's why Habibi was requesting the dabete, right? To get some soundbites that he can clip, and look like a martyr.
Beautifully.
😂😂😂 very true 😂😂😂
Beautifully done, simply glorious.
How a real journalist exposes a hack.
you live in Bizarro world Rich...hit job clip & paste hackery by the vile shitstain Hassan
yes nice job Matt
@@Tacocat123 Hur hur hur
Your boy got pumped.
@@MyName-cw4yr Hah! Mehdi forced Taibbi to admit to at least 3 factual errors he'd made in his public comments (via Twitter). That casts doubt on the accuracy of anything he's ever written.
@@MyName-cw4yr Apparently you're not a native English speaker, so allow me to simplify: Matt said on TV that Matt himself was wrong about at least 3 things. So Matt has probably made mistakes before. 分かりますか？
Musk played this dude
Then threw him in the trash
No sympathy at all. It's like the fellas who get screwed by conmen selling them stolen stuff.
So you don't mind that the US government is working with private companies to censor US citizens in violation of the law?
So you don't think there is any big tech censorship happening?
@@spunkinater It's like an alternate reality in this place. You are literally the only other person I've seen wondering about the illegal censorship going on.
I wonder if all these people are bots.
He exposed the government and big tech. What are you talking about
Absolutely destroyed Taibbi here. Taibbi was given selective information from a billionaire (arguably richest man in human history), omitting tons of data. And he thought he was "doing journalism" by promoting that. He not only omitted tons of information, as Mehdi exposes him here, he was incorrect in TONS of the data here, on the flagging tweets part, he was off by 21 MILLION. Absolutely crazy how much promo he's gotten over this.
Mehdi ate matt alive... Matt has gotten incredibly sloppy
Straight from the source is not omitting anything. You obviously haven’t heard any trial’s about the previous ceo covering up information to promote a leftist agenda.
💯Agreed. Small note, call it a bit of small adjustments (of the scale). Mansa Musa was the richest person who ever live. At $435 Billion in Gold (not digital) wealth, the 14th-century African emperor tops Musk wealth by a significant amount. Always happy to teach!
Mansa Musa was the richest man in history but I agree with your other points.
Yeah, and inflation followed where he travelled!
Matt Taibbi was completely and utterly embarrassed and humiliated. I've read so many books of his and he is clearly a great writer. Why he has become such a rubbish human being, lately?
talent is no substitute for ethics
Because he went against your pathetic democrats
This was an absolute blood bath for Taibbi
About time. He is a true horror these days.
One guy has brains, the other just barks.
MEHDI IS WRONG! CIS was the gov contractor working for CISA/DHS to help facilitate social media takedown requests - CIS is the DHS agency that partnered with EIP. Mehdi focuses on a minor error while obscuring the big picture to defend the Department of Homeland Security’s overreach
so mehdi hasan and his staff actually only found ONE ERROR in taibbi’s reporting: he got a date wrong 🙄
Not really. Reactions to this video are a great example of people living in bubbles.
@chaosmos24 exactly.. this is msnbcs youtube channel. It's on their home base, but I do think mehdi makes Taibbi look bad here, and I like Matt's work
He pushed the narrative Musk wanted him to push and now he's basically saying he's a stenographer.
No Taibbi is an enabler that more interested in money
You're pushing the narrative MSNBC wants you to push and so you're basically a stenographer.
You mental cases are so indoctrinated that you can't even realize the significance of the story... that the US government is now actively regulating and controlling what "We The People" can see, hear and learn from...and instead of commenting on the importance of this discovery...you're just whining about your favorite villain Elon.
We are all doomed.
Getting at the truth though, isn’t he. That’s what gets ya!
@@James333-n2q No, he's become a grifter. He was fired from Rolling Stone and fading into obscurity. Musk gave him a grift that made him relevant and rich.
@@gerald5175 He's a journalist. He gave up working for Rolling Stone after it became another tool of the oligarchs.
Defending Rolling Stone takes the cake.
You guys are so indoctrinated that you can't even comprehend the importance of a story about the US government actively regulating and controlling freedom of speech...and so you whine about the messenger.
Taibbi was so nervous and defensive. He can't even defend himself properly.
i feel panicked just watching him and i'm not even the one being grilled
He wasn't nervous, he is always like that.
@@thx1168 I'd always be like that if I kept inadvertently setting myself up for embarrassment too. An embarrassment that Matt could have otherwise avoided by employing just a smidgen of intellectual humility.
@@thx1168 he stutters when he lies
Because he had no defense.
17:01: "You're only 21 million nine hundred and ninety-seven thousand off"...slamdunk!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Taibbi actually took offense when Mehdi called him out on his credibility, only to eventually accept errors. Taibbi got shredded.
Disingenuous BS will ultimately get shredded. When will people like MT realize this?
@@v6math The problem is that for MT's audience, it doesn't matter if everything he says is exposed as nonsense. Republicans exist in a fact-free cosmos.
Taibbi is what’s called a real liberal. Anti corporate censorship. You and mehdi are what’s called a corporate lackey
@Personal info no
@@v6math you aren’t actually listening. You are a walking confirmation bias
I'll give props to Matt Taibbi for actually doing this interview, unlike other right-wing grifters who only ever go on Fox and get their butts kissed. Very embarrassing though.
That guy Matt got owned so bad, it is sad
Tbh he asked for it himself
He's a Liberal, VOTED for Biden, Writes for Rolling stone.
All those likes for a LIE.
LOL
Bath bahh😂
@@dpalmer1557 so claims Dershowitz. You must be pretty gullible
Never seen Taibbi so uncomfortable, which for a stunningly arrogant man is quite something.
Matt Taibbi didn’t do himself any favours when he asked Mehdi Hasan to be invited on his show 😂
I think Matt needed this jolt to get his value system back on track.
He fell into d disinformation rabbit hole lured by money & lost his way.
@@gary7vnhe asked to b invited & so he was.
@@joseviveiros6743 cool story bro, also, how's that boot taste?
Gosh, this guy shouldn’t have come on this show at all
@@likenothingdo you’re the only one here giving boot licking vibes
Contrary to Taibbi's implication, a story isn't accurate, if it omits relevant context. The breathless complaint about Twitter taking down Hunter's dic pix, without mentioning what they were, is a case in point.
They took down all reference to the story and yesterday it came out that 9 Biden family members have been directly linked to the financial dealings in the laptop. Also, the icloud leak had hard evidence that Joe sent him money to pay for his escourts (i.e. a timestamped video of Hunter arguing with her about payment and a timestamped money transfer from Joe). If that doesn't bother you there's something wrong.
But come on man, you know that's what Mehdi does too. The dude has the gall to accuse people of having agendas when he totally does as well.
It appears that you admit that what I said is true. Good enough. "Everybody does it" is a silly (and false) excuse.
@@michaellust2030 I didn't say everybody does it. I said Mehdi does it. This debate is not intellectual at all, it's hacks on a 24/7 news channel.
Now there's a distinction without a difference. Whether your excuse is "he does it, too" or "everyone does it, too," it is the same excuse, and it is still lame.
I've defended Taibbi before, but his position was undefendable here...and he didn't try to defend it. This what the kids call getting rekt.
Nope, this is the leftists not liking truth.
The story he broke 10y ago was fine. Had it's cracks and stuff but all in all was well researched. This today is spoon fed bs probably by a team of fixers and their tall-tale-engineers to get him to do exactly what he's doing.
Me too..but I much prefer ALL THE FACTS...not selective parsing... medhi is an exceptional debater and I certainly wouldn't want to go up against him if I'm not being righteous in my facts lol
Matt looked like a deer in headlights most of the time
A lot of us used to like and respect his work, but now he's nothing more than a right wing grifter.
the core issue is the government here, not the journalist, why would a news organization take the side of the government and people in power over an actual journalist trying to get info to the public?
come on, if nude pics of matt taibbi were posted on twitter, he really believes he'd have no avenue personally to get them removed? that sounds highly dubious (but i don't use twitter so that's just my impression).
Yeah the second Taibi claimed that he would have no recourse as an individual if hacked nudes of him were posted on Twitter I was hoping Hassan would call him on his BS. Taibi could pick up the phone and personally call the owner of Twitter and Musk would start another round of firings. This fact also undercuts Taibi's entire Twitter files argument.
Right on.
Ofc, if my hypothesis has any merit, and perhaps Matt's dabbling in public humiliation, then maybe he might not care as much???
There is a difference between "no avenue" and having a direct pipeline to Twitter.
Biden, Trump, and governmental organizations have that pipeline, whereas Taibbi, Hasan, you and I do not.
Also, the amount of "avenues" available when Dorsey was CEO of Twitter was incredibly limited. Famous TH-camrs with millions of subscribers could not get verified. Not as famous people would get verified, though, if they had the right connections with people at Twitter. If you were banned unfairly, you sent Twitter an email and prayed they would get back to you (they often never responded). There was no customer service whatsoever; you could never get a hold of an actual human.
That is revenge corn. Illegal in most states and definitely against Twitter rules. Is this supposed to be a dunk ?
It didn't matter if he was prepared or not for this interview when you're not telling the truth there's no answer
Dude, Mehdi’s preparation enabled him to call Taibbi what he is…a fading journalist who took a journalistic mercenary stance by being contrarian if it serves his substack and other journalistic opportunities. Taibbi is a phony. He has fallen so far and has so little confidence in his own journalistic efforts such that he has to appear on major interviews by drinking alcohol for courage (do you really think those sips from a coffee cup was coffee?)
@@permasun1 You just can't admit that this administration has controlled the narrative at the expense of the truth. Sad. Our national media is totally corrupt and only reports one side of any story.
@@permasun1 Tell me how he's a fading journalist and I'll tell you how your just parroting the party line. What happened to curiosity?😊
@@Ashakat42 Taibbi buried himself, when he admitted that his 'journalistic integrity' didn't extend to having the balls to stand up to the union-busting robber baron who used him.
@@Ashakat42 If he can't be bothered to do very basic fact checking on the name of an organization and when it was founded, then he doesn't really have any journalistic integrity any more. A reluctance to make corrections on those errors is even more damning, since even mainstream media will post any corrections at the top of their articles.
1:11 The very first thing Matt Taibbi says in this video is enough by itself to show how hard he's working to sensationalize his story. "Twitter files" is much bigger than the 2008 global financial crisis? Good lord. How ludicrous.
"Good lord. how ludicrous" that the state security apparatus has thoroughly embedded itself with social media companies. That is not a story at all. Corrupt bankers is def a bigger story. Clown
He then says he shouldn't have to actually explain why.
my favorite part was him trying a "Gotcha!" on Mehdi with the "woke" vs. "Digital" bit at the start. Mehdi totally "no-sold" it and Taibbi knew from then on he was screwed lol
@@skippythealien9627 Mehdi just smiled and must have thought "this poor fool has no idea how this interview is going to go."
fixed the title for msnbc *Mehdi debates Mehdi as Mehdi agrees with Mehdi , while Matt Taibbi comments on the 'Twitter Files' and Elon Musk between Mehdi taking deep breaths from exhaustion*
Brilliantly interviewed. Thank you.
Did MSNBC get rid of Medhi over THIS?
He torched his cred. Good luck getting it back.
He doesn't need it back, he's with the fascists now.
Not really. He's become another Alex Jones and enjoys the same following--utterly deluded people who will believe anything and who are basically contemptuous of facts.
as if shitlib cultists matter any more...you are LOST
Wow. He sounds like my son arguing with me when i asked him why he dug up the yard
The Twitter files were flawed from the beginning, just from the fact that it was all fed from Elon.
So your mad that the government is silence their critics
@@devinmassa6792 Yeah but that isn't happening.
he was given access to info that was never supposed to be public, and he is doing the leg work here my friend.
@@devinmassa6792 Sounds more like you’re mad it’s been proven, at least on twitter, they haven’t, except for trump, that is! 😂
"That's what they told me" has got to be the least self-respecting statement anybody can make when defending a point...
Matt Taibbi sounds like a student saying, the dog ate my homework.
Best comment ever....
Wait hold on I didn't know about that story. Wait I gotta look into that. Yeah I know that was wrong but. Okay you got a point there but. Just excuses after excuses for not doing his job, Jesus
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the core issue is the government here, not the journalist, why would a news organization take the side of the government and people in power over an actual journalist trying to get info to the public?
@@justinhenry8995 The problem is that Tiabbi is basically carrying billionaire Elon Musk's water and just writing whatever Elon wants him to. Elon clearly has an agenda where he wants to bash democrats and gave Tiabbi a very one sided story. Even worse, Tiabbi missed an actual instance of the govnerment trying to use censorship on social media when Donald Trump made several requests from Twitter's moderation team. So in essence, Tiabbi also is doing the bidding of the republicans in government.
Mehdi has to be one of the best journalists around. Kudos, very well prepared.
well, even if his arguments were more convincing to me at first glance, it is NOT good journalistic practice to not let the person to be interviewed finish their sentence. I've known him since his al jazeera days, where I was mostly appreciating his interviews. But Taibbi has a habit of stumbling verbally and stuttering, seeking a way back to his train of thought and everytime he does, Mehdi seizes the opportunity to utterly derail his response, preventing him from even thinking about a proper sentence to capture his thought process.
This is not great journalism, it's great political rhetoric, where winning is more important than the accuracy of a description.
Mehdi is one of the worst journalists working, and I thought that before he jumped on over to the US. You should check out his book about winning arguments because in it he lays out every illegitimate tactic one can use as if this is somehow a good thing. He regularly employs strawman arguments, reframes questions, uses highly selective appeals to authority, quote mines, cuts people off mid-sentence in order to twist their point into a strawman and of course he loves the classic 'lie by omission' tactic. Mehdi even begin this interview with an attempt to poison the well.
If you think he did a good job here then you have fallen for all of these tricks and more.
@@laughingachilles Except you can't provide a singe example of this during his evisceration of the pathological liar and ex-journalist Matt Taibbi.
@@phasespace4700
Check my other comment on this video where I literally time stamp one such example. If you can't see the tricks after reading and watching that then I'm afraid there is no hope for you.
Another little moment is where Mehdi states Taibbi is claiming the congress witness was lying under oath, but Taibbi never even suggested that. He goes to object and Mehdi quickly moves on without allowing a rebuttal despite ending the sentence repeating the lie. Taibbi didn't call her a liar, he didn't insinuate it, he didn't even vaguely hint at it.
Taibbi only said he hadn't been given the tweets the witness was referencing and the witness testified later, thus it wasn't possible to publish something he didn't have. This in no way is calling or even hinting at her being a liar but Mehdi just invented that idea and claims Taibbi was saying it.
That was blatant and dishonest. I am honestly shocked you can't watch that part and recognise the trick being used.
does he still believe in Jussie Smollett?
If this was a boxing match, Taibis would have been carried out on a stretcher. That was brutal!
22:15 One example of a knockout punch!😂
So you’re cool with Twitter censoring things at the governments request?
Matt: “all my reporting is wrong but I stand by it”
Takes 20th gulp
😂😂😂😂😂
HAAA.
that's his rebuttal in a nutshell.
2 minor trivial errors don't charge the substance of Taibbi's story. Mehdi on the other hand, lied through his teeth in this interview
@@BahubaliSamraat actually it was more like 6 pretty major errors and can you point out what Mehdi lied about?
At the end he sounds like he is about to break down in tears because he was called out and it hurt his feelings.
Yeah, it's like talking to Armed Liberal. "Oh, is that why your son died of cancer? Oh, are you gonna cry because your feefees were hurt? So that's why you're an incompetent journalist, huh? No wonder your father hated you." The lesson is that you don't debate liberal animals-- you troll them.
He seemed to bumble and stammer thru most of that debate.
@My Name Sorry, Matt got destroyed with facts and errors of his own making. His credibility got pulled apart. He stood by his article in a petulant way. And had to concede every error pointed out. He was like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that doesn't exist.
@@MyName-cw4yr only TWO instances on twitter were thought to be censorship, and they were :
The nude pics of hunters junk which weren’t censorship because they violated twitters terms of service and that’s why they were removed!
And there was trumps attempt to have his admin demand and succeed in having tweets about him removed! Now that was ACTUAL government censorship of social media!
@@MyName-cw4yr the Biden campaign is government intervention?
This is how you challenge somebody and not just platform them.
Exactly.
You should watch the last 4 minutes and watch him deny, deny, deny.
This is how you ignore a whole body of work and only concentrate on two trivial mistakes to destroy a reporter's reputation. Chalk this up as a win for state censorship.
@@KellyMessiahexactly
@@KellyMessiah Taibbi certainly couldn't manage to come up with a _single_ damning piece of evidence to support his outlandish claims, despite being given multiple opportunities. Perhaps you'd like to give it a try?
Mehdi is not interested in the truth , he’s interested in msnbc’s narrative. If you’re interested you should watch the whole interview in front of congress.
"It's self-evident" is a refuge for people who don't have facts arrayed in their corner.
Or when they can not defend their position with any facts
@@MyName-cw4yr Nice try.
@@MyName-cw4yr
Nope.
Matt uses hear say and "1+1=3" twisted logic.
The Bidens asked Twitter to remove nude photos of Hunter, which they had every right to do.
Don the Con tried to get Twitter to remove a mean tweet WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT.
That was government trying to control social media.
@@MyName-cw4yr What mass of evidence? Clearly he has nothing and this whole thing is a nothing burger
Matt said he “tried his best”. That’s not journalistic integrity. If you can’t verify the story you don’t publish the story.
Woodward and Bernstein always verified their stuff.
Woodward was a CIA stooge.
Wow, I at one time really admired taibbi. He is setting himself to be a newsmax correspondent. Where facts are not important, and gaming those poor suckers is very profitable.
All you see now is advocacy journalism lol
Woodward was working for the Government
No one verifies stories. The entire bounty gate story about Russian bounties in Afghanistan was pushed by a single journalist with no sources.
Totally fake made up story.
It’s hard to believe he requested this debate…
He was just being arrogant, didn't realize Mehdi would actually call him on his bluff. :)
clearly matt believes in what he believes in to go on, he's just a very bad debater.
🤣 hahaha, I know right? maybe he's a masochist
it's hard to believe how Hasan's debating tricks and slimy innuendos impress some people more than an honest attempt to tell the truth. I don't for a second believe Hasan actually believes any of the crap he is paid to sell
@@outsideMax I can believe that moon is made of cheese but it doesn't make it right...
The host is really well spoken. Not one stutter. All while reciting facts and fast talking.
Are you high he is gaslighting people this is a huge scandal.
Mehdi you are the Great Debater well done keep up the great work 💙💙💙
He’s definitely a master debater. Lol
Life is tough when someone actually knows what they’re talking about and fact checks in real time. Those sighs speak for themselves
Taibbi was eviscerated. It was embarrassing. It really is one of the most pathetic falls from grace as a journalist. Loved his work on the 2008 crash. He was a proper investigative journalist. In his defence he has always been a terrible public speaker, but there is no excuse for mealy mouthed deflection and denial and every turn from this guy. What happened to him?
You mental cases are so indoctrinated that you can't even realize the significance of the story... that the US government is now actively regulating and controlling what "We The People" can see, hear and learn from...and instead of commenting on the importance of this discovery...you're just whining about sighs.
We are all doomed.
@@thebillryan the love of money
You obviously haven’t been listening to the hearings. Hasan isn’t using facts, he’s bending them and using his black belt arguing ability to turn black into white, as he used to do here in the UK, before he saw better prospects for his abilities in foreign lands.
@@thebillryan - He realised that there was more money to be made grifting to a gullible right wing audience, just like Glenn Greenwald and Russell Brand.
Matt keeps saying "the government" when talking about the Biden campaign.
Because he's got spoon fed everything for his story. And he obviously swallowed it hook, line and sinker then washed it down with the provided cool aid.
And then completely ignored the ACTUAL government when it comes to the Trump WHITE HOUSE
And Matt was completely disingenuous about the fact that the tweets the Biden campaign asked them to review were nude pictures of Hunter - which was completely against Twitter's rules.
@@peterpain6625ironic that you keep parroting the line “spoon fed”.
Good boy Peter! Now roll over
@@peterpain6625 Orange flavored kool aid
Wow!! That was friggen brutal!!! Lol!!!
Matt Taibbi really screwed up by asking to go on Mehdi’s show. He got dissected!
he like ly did it on a coke fueled high. Too much confidence when on that stuff
Mehdi is like a buzz saw. Holy cow. Matt is gonna have to scrub himself in the shower
Mehdi is a loss for the UK. He has always been this incisive and decisive.
He is always well prepared for his interviews with facts.
be sure to search "Mehdi Hasan’s BOGUS “Fact Check” Of Matt Taibbi’s Twitter Files Debunked"
It cost Mehdi his job. It's so sad when this is what we need.@@LorraineTapper
Dude turned into a shill! 😮
Sadly
Medhi yes, also a fan of flying horses
and matt started off as I expected. "I dont have to talk about how important the files are. They speak for themselves." In other words, I'm just going to say nonsense and then demand you prove me wrong.
They do speak for themselves. You can read them FOR YOURSELF. You should try it and see how this hack Mehdi is lying.
@@ninja3687 Go ahead and point out a lie Mehdi told, then. Because _I've_ read them, and know that _you're_ lying.
@@ninja3687 name the lie...
Medhi Hassan a hack?🤣Sour grapes or what🤣🤣
Thank you so much for this public service. I have been so deeply disappointed in Matt Taibbi since he took this inexplicable turn into the MAGAverse.
This comment section is so boomerish its like a 30th year high school reunion. Keep believing cable news, old timer.
@@angelorossini7016 Okay Bloomer.
The MAGAverse makes it easy for people to get attention, acceptance and money. You can say anything - in fact, the more extreme and crazy the better - and they will love you for it.
@@angelorossini7016 7 comments on this channel and in most of them you call someone a boomer. Get a new diss please 😂
@@angelorossini7016 okay, MAGA dupe. 🦃
That was no debate. That was Mehdi utterly destroying Matt.
Well done Mehdi well done
I must have watched a different clip
@@jmaycock liberals always believe they're right no matter what happens. That's why you should never debate them, associate with them or even talk to them. They are a waste of breath because you won't get through to them. You can literally point to the sky and say hey look it's blue and they'll say "nuh uh muh feelings"
@@jmaycock It's ok, the internet is hard.
correct. That was no debate which would've required for both people debating not doubling as the "impartial", "referee", "moderator" etc....
I agree that this was a poor performance on Matt's part, but tbh - he has a habit of stumbling verbally / stuttering and whenever he was trying to figure out a way to articulate his thought process, Mehdi seized the opportunity to utterly derail Taibbi's attempt at capturing his train of thought for a proper response. He did not give Taibbi a chance to answer his tough but - concededly - justified questions. That's not a debate with equal opportunity for all participants to state their case. It's just a meal in a lion's den.
@parityviolation Matt got crushed and it was great
There's no way Taibbi wasn't aware of Elon's bias. He should've let someone else get thrown under Elon's cyberbus.
That must have been one big sack of money
One can only assumed he has gotten enough publicity to sell books and book interviews
@@Horus070like Hunters artwork?
None- space Karen is not hard to understand
@@dpalmer1557 why buy a Monet for 500k when one can get a Hunter for the same?
It’s funny how people are concerned about the small bipartisan details, rather than the fact that the government is overstepping boundaries in a non-partisan manner.
These aren't people, these are government shills.
Now that Trump's in they are crying about perceived (IDK if real) TikTok censorship.
Contrast this interview with Leslie Stahl interviewing mtg on 60 Minutes. What an interview that would have been with either Mehdi Hasan or Jon Stewart running the interview.
The people at 60 Minutes don't know how to deal with a crazy person which is why they shouldn't have had her on.
Greene is dumb, but smart enough not to take a real interview. Stahl was abysmal.
Right on!
🎯 Mehdi is brilliant, Leslie Stahl is over
Oh I would love John to take on Matt... it would be like when he took down Tucker so badly he quit wearing bow ties.
MT turned up unarmed to an intelligent conversation.
I watched every delicious millisecond of that. At one point, he said : "Hello...am I still on?" I cried real tears of joy.
@@upload638 Yeah...they always seem to do that when they want to avoid the question or delay so that their brain can come up with some BS.
Ouch, that's cruel.
He's trying his best guys, come on.
Screaming over the guest is intelligent conversation?Hasan the b o o t l i c k e r.Are u for censorship?
He realized there is more money in divisivness than in truth.
You’re literally describing the news media.
@@w.iraheta3769 You do realize Matt considers himself part of the news media, right?
Happens to all journalists at some point under unregulated capitalism.
@@dohsferatu Now you are an honest thinker! Yes, it’s UNREGULATED capitalism that is the problem
@@dohsferatu He obviously meant "legacy" (or corporate) media. Did watching MSNBC teach you that spin or is it just reflexive🤣?
Absolute destruction of Taibbi!
Mehdi, keep on fighting the good fight! Well done, sir
Wow - Mehdi is on another level. Just like Jon Stewart... Taibbi got dusted in this interview. He was all tough on twitter like 'invite me on your show' and then got smoked
Matt's a writer, not a bloviator. Matt got out-bloviated by a corpo teleprompter reader. This is not surprising.
@@angelorossini7016it obviously came as a complete surprise to Matt 😁 And your pompous description of Medhi shows an insecurity. The second use was redundant.
@@neale3871 Describing a corporate news presenter as a bloviator is pompous? I don't want to say 'okay boomer,' but you make it hard. get back to me when the five minutes of pharmaceutical ads starts so you won't miss any of your program.
Amen brother!! 😂💯💯
@@angelorossini7016 Yes, the language you chose and the use you made of it is pompous.
It is also sophistry in that you are lying by omission.
This is the first time I've seen this and it is without a doubt my favorite takedown of all. Thank you Medhi.
Wow... you are brainwashed.
MSNBC is the propaganda tool of the establishment
Lol 😂 you really are that indoctrinated- there is Nothing more dangerous than sincere ignorance
To quote another: "They proved Matt was only 99.996% correct."
Taibbi got curb stomped. His dishonestly and lack of research really were on display.
That was a masterclass in interviewing. Completely shredded him. Very impressive
Lead with insinuations, constantly speak over and interrupt during almost every response, ambush Matt throughout with with unrelated side topics, and then end with further insinuations. Oh, and totally ignore the self contained overall merits and damning substance of the twitter files themselves. Yeah, a real masterclass... in partisan hackery and aggressive buffoonery.
@@en9a9eperelandra80 Cope. Taibbi got humiliated and admitted error after error. There is no damning evidence in the pathetic so called twitter files story. It's an absolute joke.
@@en9a9eperelandra80 Maybe ypu should try Copium? I hear it works wonders for Trump and Musk fans.
@@Don-md6wn - you're free to believe whatever you want, but there is plenty of evidence that shows federal agencies going out of their way to politically censor social media.
@@en9a9eperelandra80 maybe if Matt came prepared, didn't lie or omit information in his 'journalism', didn't just make stuff up because it suited his narrative...Medhi wouldn't have had to completely shred him. If he wants to be a real journalist again, maybe he should do his homework and don't just accept what 'handed' to him from Elon. He made himself look like a fool. Medhi just put him on the stage.
This is what journalistic integrity looks like. Anything less is a disservice to the public.
It's what Leftist propaganda looks like.
YES!!!
It's awesome to watch Taibi squirm in his seat when he debates someone informed with facts and intelligent to debate.
You have such Trump Derangement Syndrome that you are instinctively against anyone who opposes Joe Biden lol
Matt is someones Stormy Daniels 😲
Matt tried to inform. Mehdi tried to discredit. It'd be like debating Armed Liberal. There's no point.
@@winstonsmith6607 Well said but you need to move past A.L.
@@dangireleeds Taibbi asked to be invited onto the show. You can't blame anyone else.
Why can't more interviews on mainstream media be as confrontational as this one. Mehdi slayed this jerk. Give Mehdi a pay raise. 🇺🇸
“Jerk” he’s literally trying to explain how the government abuses its power.
simply put Taibbi was hired to report on the highly illegal and dangerous activities of very powerful people. how is he the bad guy?
you mean uncivilized, right? Just remember that Taibbi is a real patriot trying to keep American shiny armor by attacking the moral decay of US gov (an action that may lead the world again to trust and love the USA) and Mahdi really wants to quicken your "New Rome" failure.
@@mattdomenick6955 he’s bad because the left doesn’t like him anymore, because the truth has been reported-the democrats are acting like fascist.
@@mattdomenick6955 no. He was literally hired by a very rich and powerful person to push an agenda.
THAT is why he the bad one here.
He used cherry picked information that Musk had selected.
They hid the examples with Trump and his administration, while only focusing on the ones from Biden's team (who wasn't in government at the time!).
He deliberately misrepresented the facts, like this video clearly shows (and Taibbi admits).
I've been a fan of Matt since his epic takedown of Mitt Romney and baine capital but wow did he get smoked here. Embarrassing
That Matt is no more. Time to cut ties with him.
He went right wing
@@Franklin-fb9xp he definitely has a bias but I wouldn't necessarily say he went right wing. Keep in mind too, he's a Russian national
Matt Taibi blew his credibility by acting like a fanboy to Elon Musk.
It’s backfired spectacularly. Tiabbi quit twitter. Seems the bromance is over…and such an important story still untold I’m sure 🙄😉🤣
You can omit everything between "blew" and "to" and still offer better context than Matt did in the Twitter files.
Matt Taibbi shot his credibility by publishing an autobiography which bragged about his rampant sexual harassment and misconduct while he was running a gutter publication in Moscow.
@@dozzer009 I’m shocked so many people in these comments are okay with the government cuddling up so close to Twitter. Regardless of if our government broke any specifically laws, I just don’t think these two groups should be that close. Because it ends with true stories being labeled as misinformation that could influence an election 🤷🏻♂️
hahaha that is completely meaningless and doesn't affect the truth and facts at all dope! he totally destroyed MSNBC for parroting The Establishment narrative of russia russia russia hoax and denied any wrong doing by hunter biden hahaha so fantastic and you have to be a special kind of stupid to think Taibi is discredited by lying fake news MSNBC host hahaha wakey wakey!!
That hurt.
It hurt because I have such respect for Matt after reading 'Griftopia'.
Its tough losing respect for someone you admired, but, follow the truth.
Griftopia was amazing. Its sad to see Matt now.
The story is in the public interest, but it's not in the public interest to report it without contextualizing that Twitter could and did refuse 60 percent of the time requested and that many of the "censored" tweets were simply vile content that violated the terms of service. These to points alone add complexity to the situation as opposed to "government is censoring right wingers" story.
ha, so govt pressure which results in censoring 40% of speech on a public platform is NOT a violation of the First Amendment???
Taibbi showed it was not just right wingers. Weird, how Mehdi and Dems like to ignore that part, but corporate Dems hate progressives more than they hate Republicans, so there's that.
Matt says they also censored left organizations too. But they were organizations that also are more anti establishment than MSNBC so the Dems didn't seem to care about that in the hearings.
The point is not how much Twitter caved in. It's how hard the security state leaned in. Nor is it the point whether terms of service were in fact violated. Why is it the FBIs job to police a private company's terms of service? It's a convenient pretext
@@peteunderdown6889 Bidens team wasn’t the FBI. If tweets break the TOS then it’s in their right to handle it. The fact remains that high profile individuals and situations usually bring about more eyeballs if Twitter didn’t respond in those instances it’s get worse. People who think this isn’t normal must not work in any corporate environment or understand people to any degree.
He keeps bringing up Russiagate....guess he didn't actually read the Mueller report.
So was RussiaGate true?
We can't read it. Many pages are still blacked out.
Don't even have to go that far, just ask them why Reality Winner was jailed works every time.
@BahubaliSamraat most of it. Hard to ignore the 150 or more contacts with Russian agents highlighted in the report. If nothing was amiss, why all the obstruction by Trump? 10 descriptions that could not be charged on a sitting President, but Mueller said those could be brought after office.
@@BahubaliSamraatYes.
What happened to Taibbi is that he found that being a rightwing grifter paid more.
I think his path is more complicated and emotional than that, and involves a lot of embitterment.
@@ailblentynNo, it’s the money. The Right Wing eats up stories about influential “leftists” who turn right. It’s like someone who was wicked but is now redeemed because they have been baptized. Easy money if you play it right. Matt Taibbi is just being lazy, and it shows!
That's the lie you idiots tell yourselves because the truth is what happened to him is nothing compared to what has happened to you.
OH ya. Ego and money.
@@ailblentyn Not really, that's what happened to him. He's not the first nor last "leftist" to take the money. This is one is really disappointing because Matt was once one of the best journalist out there.
God MSNBC needs to do cool, engaging stuff like this 24/7
Taiibi just went ftom Hero to Zero
This is how you do an interview
Mehdi Hassan, you are the real deal
Taibbi didn't get interviewed here, he got roasted.
And he even brought his own fuel.
Wow.... have another red pill Matt
Yes, Jimmy, after listening to you yell lies to all of us for years, I dearly hope DOJ is finally coming for you now. Mister Hassan: I just impulse bought your book in honor of this interview. Mostly for the sickened look on taibbi's face. It reminded me of Doctor Hill's testimony before congress. Thanks for that.
Holy cow Medhi absolutely humiliated him. I actually started feeling sorry for little matty. This was fabulous.
Don't waste any emotional energy feeling bad for this person. He's got shill money now 🤑 who needs dignity when they're rolling in cash?
@@Pfpfpfpfpf2020 Agreed. But I still don't get it. How does a person toss all of their principles and integrity just to manage to increase their following by appealing to stupid people?
It took his team two weeks to find two errors. At no point does he address if the core of the Twitter files, is true. The only thing I care about is whether or not the gov pressured and paid big tech to suppress valid information. We ate walking into a fascist environment and you clowns are cheering it on
@@phasespace4700 it baffles me too. I was a big fan of his years ago and to see the direction he's taken is so... Gross.
@@Pfpfpfpfpf2020 is everyone who disagrees with the US empire paid by foreign nations or just matt?
Matt was given access to files and now he is claiming he didn't have access - meaning that he was given selective access and he just laundered the selection. I would make a distinction between a courier and a journalist.
Thank you Mehdi for bringing Matt to your show. He looked and sounded like George Santos.
Tough to protect your source when your source can’t shut up about it being him.
Matt has gotten lazy in his journalism.
'meaning that he was given selective access ' Well said. That's the nub of the issue. As to him 'liking' Musk... er, you're supposed to be a journalist... WTH's that got to do with it?
BS
Mehdi lied about CISA not being involved and intentionally mischaracterized 3000 URLs as being only 3000 tweets. In actuality, the URLs linked to millions of tweets and it even said in the document that it was only a sample of what was to be censored as per the government.
What a great interview Mehdi. I appreciate that he owned up to a few of the "errors" but your research was amazing.
He had no choice but to own it, but he still denied other facts that MH proved to be incorrect.
I'm glad the government has someone standing up for them.
Ouch. That was painful to watch. I didn’t think it was possible to actually feel so embarrassed for Taibbi that I _started_ to actually feel a little bad for him…
Lol, sup Amy.
I don’t think you we’re watching the same thing I was. Matt is a journalist not a political hack. Just because he doesn’t support your party on every issue doesn’t mean he’s not reporting the truth or what sliver of the truth he can find.
@@boardmeetingsofficial He couldn’t answer very basic questions about the credibility of his work. That negates your “sliver of the truth” argument, man.
@@boardmeetingsofficial I think this interview does an excellent job of proving the latter.
You're nicer than I am. Keep it up; someone's going to have to help these people back into society in a couple of years.
There's a lot going on here, but I can't get over how Matt couldn't even answer the question that he asked to be on the show because of. So weird.
Because he is collecting content here. This footage will be amply diced up and shown in an omitted context to as many brainless conspiratorial idiots he can possibly reach. This is just a way to make money and it's easier than just reporting 100% what factually happened. That doesn't work like it used to in this country. It used to be that facts were facts and that was all that was reported. However, when you do that nowadays you don't get anywhere. Facts don't sell. Conspiracy sells. He just wants to make money and grifting unintelligent idiots who panic at the utterance of the phrase "Da' Govment" does take more effort than just reporting the facts, but it yields much more results. The truth is just the truth. There is no flare to it. It's boring. Truth doesn't SELL. Conspiracy is where it's at. That's how you hook an audience. Get a good enough echo chamber going and you can say or do practically anything. It's not like your followers are going to read about any truth or facts. Just the conspiracies you feed them alone with sustain them. Then they can smugly wave off any studies or factual data presented to them because facts don't matter anymore.
Twitter complying with court orders from India is somehow a big story because India is right wing? Twitter is also complying with court orders from Brazil and Australia that are dumb socialists. Where is the outrage for the latter? LOL
He either really didn't prepare or he realized that Musk was indefensible so he played ingnorant.
He's a lazy hack. If we were to go back to his work from his good-guy days I'm sure it's riddled with errors and problems too.
Mehdi called his bluff. Tiabbi didn’t think he’d actually be invited on.
A sloppy mind versus a sharp mind. Poor Taibbi, it shows.
He never answered the first question about the nude photos that were taken down as per twitter rules.
Because there is no way to answer that with out revealing the truth that the fact didn't fit the narrative so he left it out. Propaga by ommision.
BTW, as pointed out, THAT was the most popular story from the so called "twitter files," and he said this S## is of monumental importance.
Rarely have I seen such a professional smackdown performed by a journalist.
Watch British journalists more often,it’s child’s play for them In the US..🤷♂️
It cost Mehdi his job. It's so sad when this is what we need.
This was painful to watch, it is hard to watch someone humiliated in public like this .... but if anyone deserved it ...
🦆Twitter files publisher: 'Every conceivable wing' of federal enforcement sent censorship requests. No doubt FB and Google, TH-cam is doing the same, and also Apple.“Our assumption is that this was made possible because of hysteria about Russian penetration of our politics.” That would involve anyone in the political class actually believing the Russian Collusion conspiracy theory.
Taibbi was brutalized here and was clearly not prepared for this butt whoopin
Please …. Matt is real Journalist
@@johnnyutah4584
@@johnnyutah4584 The only thing he shown here that he is a sell out.
Wow Mehdi, you didn't have to do him dirty like that...making him look like a bumbling fool
Mehdi: The Shark on Shark Week.
Taibi: The clueless seal
If the truth does him dirty, he deserves to be done dirty.
Yer he did👍
Lol mehdi was unflappable and matt flailed about trying to insult him. Never get in a flame war with an english guy, it's all they do
So true😂 Journos are sissified in the US. So frustrating.
MEHDI IS WRONG! CIS was the gov contractor working for CISA/DHS to help facilitate social media takedown requests - CIS is the DHS agency that partnered with EIP. Mehdi focuses on a minor error while obscuring the big picture to defend the Department of Homeland Security’s overreach
so mehdi hasan and his staff actually only found ONE ERROR in taibbi’s reporting: he got a date wrong 🙄
It's because for us, friendship inherently involves insulting each other
Ben Shapiro learned that when he tried to accuse a conservative reporter of being a "liberal" because he asked for proof.
Seems like you value arrogance and obnoxiousness very highly.
Taibbi got skinned alive here.
Oh my god, Taibbi actually pulled a, "is this thing on?" stunt... Classic.
I noticed that, too. He was trying to buy a little time to come up with a BS answer. It was absolutely pathetic.
@@janxander6535 It looked to me like he was sarcastically commenting on Mehdi's constant interruptions and filibustering; by pretending that his mic didn't work. But you might be right.
And thankfully mehdi was able to keep taibbi on topic through those interruptions and that’s why Matt fell apart. Cause he couldn’t derail the conversation
@@MugRuith nah he was wanting the interview to end
@@janxander6535 he was sweating and praying that the answer would be "no . . sorry . . lost the connection" . . . LOL
Lmao Taibbi was so rattled in this interview. 😂
He actually even resorted to the Trump tactic of ridiculing MSNBC as fake news, as if that has anything to do with this topic.
He tried to do a Russell Brand.
Lmao, poor mehdi trying to defend MSNBC as being honest and not able to do it.
@@mexicanatta huh?
Quite pleasant to watch him squirm as the reality of his [shifting] positions over the years are presented to him by Mehdi, one after the other. He's obviously just a grifter now.
@@mexicanatta It was Matt Taibbi being dishonest in this interview.
Bye bye Taibbi. Thank you Mehdi. It is sad to see a once credible journalist giving into the $. (Former fan.)
He's pathetic! A straight sellout! Smh
lol keep rooting for corporate journalism. You think Hassan makes less then Taibbi? Silly boy.
I honestly hadn't read him in years. When I had a Rolling Stone subscription back in the day, I was a big fan. And his work on Real Time with Bill Maher was also terrific.
Regardless of what he has written or said since, his writing had a ton of real world impact. Can't think of another writer who made the 2008 economic collapse so easy to understand.
This interview was pretty bad though, he looked out of his depth.
@@snerdterguson in what way was he out of his depth?
@@MyName-cw4yr Here's a hint: when the host shows your own verbatim statements on screen, shows again and again that they are sheer fabrication until, reluctantly, you're forced to admit you're a sloppy journalist with no credibility, that's a clue you may be out of your depth.
This is not a debate. This is good audio talking loudly over poor audio.
Awesome job by Mehdi. This is not the same Matt Taibbi. Follow the money.
I’d say follow the bias. In his head he has been convinced Elon is right. He agrees with his positions and it’s ended his journalistic credibility
And MSNBC is paid for by who exactly?
@Resident Zero Sorry?
He "told" his readers, he didn't "show" them the facts.
Snowden released the same info a decade ago. Google search "the intercept convert agent". Main Stream Media brought us WMD in Iraq"Weapons of Mass Deceptions". Don't be fooled with a polarizing confirmation bias. Censorship and Domestic propaganda is legal and happening all the time.
mehdi: *gives facts and figures*
taibbi: COME ON BRO
What facts and figures do you mean? The part where he completely ignores the point of the Twitter files, which is to show how the government pressured social media to censor people?
Mehdi calls non-Muslims "animals" - how bout lookin on to those facts and figures
@@PetrPivo nice whataboutism
@@oliverram3243 Calling whataboutism is classed as gaslighing now. Keep up.
@@PetrPivo WHEN, WHERE and WHY??????